AN: There are some stories that I think will be more popular than others and when I write them I mentally calculate the amount of Reviews I think they'll get. Therefore I am honestly surprised this story is so popular. The only other of my stories that had this many reviews on the first chapter was Naruto master of the art of puppets. Speaking of which, I really should update that one.

Anyway here's chapter two

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Chapter one.

To begin training

"Say, Sonny?" asked Naruto as he concentrated on keeping up with the robot as they effectively scaled the wall of a tall building, using the numerous ledges and outcroppings. Sonny was of course ahead of him grinning like a maniac. The damn Machine could out do most of the ninja in Konoha no matter how much wall walking skills they had.

"Yes?" responded the robot in that machine-like but overly polite voice of his. God it made him want to forcefully educate the robot and make him a bit more vulgar. But then he realized that he couldn't do something so jacked up as to force someone to change their personality.

He gave a slight smile.

It had been two days since he entered the Ns-5 colony and he must say it has been two of the best fuckin days of his entire life, even more so than when Iruka-Sensei acknowledged him. Hell they had even been better then the time he disguised himself as Sasuke and… Well let's just say he's the reason Sakura is now so obsessed with the Uchiha. Heh, who knew the pink haired girl, had such a freak wild side? He wondered if Sasuke would ever warm up to her. It was guaranteed he wouldn't regret if he did. If not then Naruto would call the Uchiha avenger a gay boy for the rest of his life, even if he finds a wife in some other girl. He hadn't originally planned on going so far. He just wanted to know what Sakura really thought of him and going disguised as Sasuke was the only way to find out. This happened when he was five. Sakura's second personality took over and the rest is history.

He was taken out of his thoughts by Sonny who was hanging from a window ledge with one hand, dangling like a toy, an oversized action figure toy. He was smiling down at Naruto looking a bit amused. Naruto supposed it wasn't too surprising. He tended to zone out a lot, getting lost in his own thought, and the look on his face must have been something like open mouthed gaping like a mental patient mixed with guy who was killed by something that surprised him. It's not like there's many who talked to him anyway.

"You wanted to ask me something Naruto?"

Oh right. He did have something to ask the robot. But he got distracted with his own daydreams.

Damn ADD.



"Right, I just wanted to know what you were doing back there. Ya know two days ago when I caught you slinking through the shadows? When we first met?"

"Oh That?" Sonny seemed very amused. But then again the robot always seemed amused by the things Naruto did.

"I was not slinking. You merely happened upon me while I was asleep."

"Oh I see. For a second I thought you were following m-WAIT! YOU SLEEP!? ROBOTS CAN SLEEP!?"

Sonny laughed, still dangling from the ledge. Naruto was two ledges down.

"Yes Naruto, I can sleep. I can even have dreams."

"Riiight. Well its cool I guess. Still weird though. And there's no way I wanna know what the fuck a robot dreams about so don't tell me."

Sonny didn't say anything at first. Then without warning he swung up, let go of the ledge did a back flip while moving up then jammed his feet into the wall, creating indents. Then as he crouched down the robot winked and shot straight up to the roof where he disappeared.

"God dammit you fucking show off machine!!" he screamed at the top of his lungs. He then proceeded to try the same thing, only very sloppily and without the aid of chakra or super robot strengths. He nearly killed himself several times but managed to get to the roof where Sonny was waiting.

"You're getting better already," he said.

Naruto growled. This caused the robot to laugh. Naruto was about to yell something very loud and very insulting but held his tongue when he saw that Sonny wasn't even looking at him, but rather over the city. Naruto walked right up beside Sonny and gazed out over the place as well. He was way up there he realized, standing on the roof of one of those…what did Sonny call them? Skyscrapers? Yeah that's it. Though he wondered what type of arrogant ass hole had the nerve to build something they think could scrape the sky. Buncha nimrods. Building this ridiculously huge just screamed, "BOMB THE FUCK OUT OF ME! I'M HERE AND WAITING!!" He had to admit though the view was stunning. He could see the entirety of the city that seemed to stretch out beyond the horizon. He still couldn't believe something this freaking big existed, and was buried right under Konoha. He could see several streams of light coming down from way up. Lighting the city just enough to let you know that the city was there. For five minutes the two just stared, Naruto more in wonder then Sonny who stared with a blank face. A million thoughts were running through the boy's head. What was this city like? How did it get down here? How old is it actually?

Suddenly, Sonny spoke.

"Out of every city, every empire, every building ever built by Man over the countless generations, the seven golden ages and the three dark times Humanity went through, this city is the only one to have survived through time."



Naruto said nothing as Sonny spoke.

"It was built during the golden age of weapons, medicine and fertility. It was a time when billions of people inhabited the earth, almost too much for the planet to handle. It survived the first war between Man and Machine and it survived the first great cleansing. It became the birthing place for the first golden age of machines and it became the battle ground in the very brief war between the Ns-5's and the Humans. This city has survived Alien invasion, Machine take over, the spirit/ human war and nine more great cleansings. Within it are the last pieces of these times. The colony of Ns-5s you discovered are but one treasure this city holds."

Naruto stared wide-eyed at Sonny who looked over the city with an unblinking gaze.

"I do not know how the city survived, but every time it did whatever part of that era was in the city at the time survived as well."

He turned to Naruto with a serious expression on his face.

"Over centuries, the land changed. Oceans receded while others formed. Massive alterations of the land itself buried this city under billions of tons of earth then water washed it away, creating this cavern. The machines that were still able to move salvaged the city and everything in it. Making it a society waiting to be claimed again."

Naruto's gaze was unwavering. The initial awe he felt when he first saw the city grew even more.

"And since you found it, it belongs to you. You are entitled to every piece of technological, mystical and biological item in this city."

Naruto laughed a bit as he rubbed the back of his head. "Uh… Yeah. I already claimed this place as my own when I found you guys."

Sonny chuckled.

"But seriously. What was the point in telling me all of that?"

Sonny smiled again. Damn machine shows more happiness then most humans he knew. Something that should be a perversion of nature.

"Because you do not seem to fully grasp what it is you have stumbled into. This city holds items that could grant you an amazing amount of power. Yet you only wish to stay with us."

"So? You guys are strong and you could make me a hell of a lot stronger physically and a lot more flexible. Why do ya think I agreed to this ridiculous exercise of yours? On top of that you're all smart. Hell I never even thought some of the things I've learned in the last two days were even possible. "

It was true. The Ns-5's had began to teach him about something called cybernetics. An ancient medical technique that gave people robot limbs capable of everything and organic limb could do. Including feel pain. The steps in doing so though were so damn complicated his brain nearly exploded from the overload.



Sonny sighed. Another action that looked way odd on a walking metal man.

"But there are three other machine colonies that are far stronger and more knowledgeable then the Ns-5's. We are mere servants. "

Now Naruto only had one response to this bit of knowledge. "THERE ARE OTHER LIVING ROBOTS IN THIS PLACE?! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME EARLIER!?"

"You didn't ask."

Naruto glared. "Damn machine," he said. Sonny smiled again. "You know? You kind of remind me of an old friend of mine from way back."

"Was he a metallic smartass like you?"

"No, he was a Human police officer with a dislike for our kind."

"Humph, weird choice of friends."

Sonny smiled.

"And will you quit smiling all the fuckin time?! Its creeping me out!?"

"My apologies Naruto." The smile never left Sonny's face though and it caused Naruto's eye to twitch.

"So what are you going to do?"

"Huh?"

"Now that you know there are other living machines in the city do you plan to visit them all and learn what you can from them?"

Naruto looked up in thought. Yeah he could do that but what good would that do? He only had a month to train. On top of that he still had to explore more of the city, quite the conundrum. Ha! I used a big word. Eat that Sakura!"

"I'm not sure. I originally planned to have you Ns-5 guys run me into the ground and train me to get a strong as you guys or pretty damn close while you show me the other things in this city and teach me how to use them."

"I see."

Naruto looked up in thought.

"If you are so keen on staying with us then I can arrange for a few members of the other machine colonies to come here. We don't get along too well but we manage."

Naruto's eyes lit up.

"Really!? That would be freakin sweet!!"



Sonny chuckled and patted Naruto on the back, making the boy stumble a bit. "Jeez heavy hands! Lay off a bit would ya?"

Naruto took the next minute to straighten himself out.

"Shall we get back to the exercise then?" asked Sonny. Naruto shrugged,

"Yeah yeah let's go."

Sonny nodded and jumped off of the skyscraper where he plummeted down gripped a old flagpole sticking out of the side, swung like a gymnast two times before he let go and sailed to a much shorter building doing back tucks and landing on its roof in a crouch.

"Come on then!" called the robot. Naruto grumbled. "Damn machine is trying to kill me." "I can't do that crazy shit!" he yelled.

"Just try it! And no using your internal power source either!"

"It's called chakra and I know already!!"

Naruto closed his eyes and sighed. Sonny was still calling out to him. He really didn't want to do this. It was fucking insane. But…he's never really been one to step down from a challenge. Besides, the robot believed he could do it. He took a deep breath and cleared his mind of any distractions. Focus was what he needed at the moment. "Dammit I must be crazy!" he said after five minutes.

Then he let himself fall over the edge.

The next two days could only be described as PURE FUCKIN EUPHORIA!! After that initial leap, Naruto took to Sonny's exercise like an addict to crack. It was as if something just lifted from his brain. All doubts about himself, despite his slightly over confident and vulgar attitude melted away as the wind passed over his body. Instinct took over and a wall was lifted inside his mind, clearing up his head and allowing him to do more with a lot more ease. The acrobatic exercise designed by Sonny became second nature to him in a matter of hours.

It was amazing. However Naruto still lacked the strength of a robot but he made up for it with grace. Ha. Naruto and grace. What the hell is the world coming to if it allows something as sick and wrong as Naruto becoming graceful to happen?

The blonde Jinchuuriki didn't know it yet but Sonny had come up with this exercise because he saw through Naruto's mask. His internal scanners detected the slightest bits of hesitation in Naruto's speech. He noticed that the boy seemed paranoid, scared even, always looking over his shoulder. And he was instantly able to tell that the boy had been through a lot during his young life. He showed all of the signs of an abused child with that under nourished short body of his. The Ns-5 is a robot that was built solely for the purpose of aiding any member of the Human species. Sonny had gotten to know Naruto. He had memorized his everything about the boy and came up with the perfect thing to help cure him.

So when Naruto went sailing over him doing back tucks as he swung from street lamp to street lamp towards the Ns-5 colony screaming at the top of his lungs. "WHOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!," he 

smiled. Four days altogether is all it took for Naruto to get it down. It wasn't really that hard but the robot was still very impressed. Naruto dropped down next to him, big ridiculous grin on his face. "Damn I'll never get tired of doing that!"

"Indeed."

Sonny was of course amused. Naruto only huffed and continued on. "I never knew it could be that easy even with chakra."

Sonny nodded. Naruto's non use of chakra while doing this exercise had began to heal his body a bit. Not a lot since it's only been four days but the signs were beginning to show.

The two made their way back to the Ns-5 colony with a considerably brighter atmosphere then when they left. Naruto was much more relaxed then when he first arrived. The boy still observed his surroundings like a frightened rodent but he was making progress. The exercise had done wonders for the boy's mind. It cleared away several major limitations that had been placed on him. Limitations he was sure no human could cure. A robot on the other hand, a being who knew no such thing as limitation was the perfect teacher for someone like Naruto.

The two came around a corner and saw the Ns-5 colony.

"We're here," said Sonny.

Naruto nodded. His excitement was doing nothing to stay hidden.

But when a tall imposing figure with glowing yellow eyes, bent backwards legs and four arms each armed with a glowing sword made of light and wearing a tattered brown cape suddenly dropped from above and lunged at Naruto that excitement was replaced with a look of indignation.

"H-hey!!"

"Defend yourself Human!" Yelled the creature in an undeniable mechanical voice as it dropped one of the glowing swords in Naruto's hand. A second later the creature struck and Naruto was forced to leap high into the air, tapping into his chakra and using it to aid him.

"Who the fuck are you and why are you attacking me!?"

"I said defend yourself!"

"God mother crapping! SHIT!!"

Naruto barely managed to block one of the glowing swords with his own. But that annoying humming the swords did distracted him a lot and he took a metal clawed raptor-like foot to the abdomen, sending him careening into a building.

From below Sonny watched it all with a deadpan expression on his face the turned to his left were a figure were standing. One that was definitely female. She was tall. Taller the Sonny and made of black shiny alloy stronger than normal metal. He face was slightly round and her figure slim. Well as slim as you could get when describing an android. Her hair if you could call it that consisted of ten two inch thick 

tentacles with wicked looking blades at the ends. They danced around on their own accord and were section off many times like and accordion, red glowing rings in the sections signified the energy powering her form. Her eyes were yellow glowing voids and he could see that she was obviously a newer robot. Her torso, legs and arms were completely covered in smooth shiny black metal and where her joints were he could see countless tiny insect-like droids acting like anchors and a filling for the metal shell and held her together. It was a fascinating concept. However he knew exactly who she was as soon as he saw her.

"Deus Ex Machina," he said without much emotion. Naruto would have laughed if had witness this since Sonny is pretty much nothing but emotion.

"Ns-5," she said with her tone being just as emotionless. He noted that the insect droids inside of her were showing more signs of activity. Suddenly there was a large barrel of a gun against the back of his head and Sonny didn't need to turn around to see who it was.

"Sky-Net."

"Human lover," said the person in a mechanical but male voice. Sonny stood still, his eyes were narrowed.

The air became thick with so much tension you couldn't cut through it with a chainsaw. All three machines were dead silent and stone still. These three looked like they were on the edge of snapping and attacking each other in a flurry of metal destruction. Eyes were narrowed dangerously and gears and electrical wiring was flooded with energy. These were not robots that were meant to exist with each other. That is why they live in separate parts of the city.

The Deus Ex Machina spoke first, her face twisted into a funky unidentifiable smile.

"I must admit," began the female robot as she stepped up to Sonny. "That I actually laughed when one of your kind showed up in my territory asking for assistance in training a human boy."

She ran a finger across his cheek and turned away from him.

"And I must admit that it interested me as well."

The sound of Naruto yelling obscenities as he clashed with the third stranger rang out from somewhere in the city.

The one identified as Sky-Net chuckled but kept his weapon on the back of the Ns-5's head. "I on the other hand was NOT amused."

"Yeah, sure you weren't," grumbled Sonny as he noted the fact that Sky-Net wouldn't quit that damn chuckling. He felt the barrel of the gut jam him in the head a bit.

"Watch yourself Ns-5."

Sonny sighed and moved faster than lightning, grabbing the gun with his hand and flipping Sky-Net over his shoulder. The other machine reacted quickly and landed perfectly on a pair of silver bare feet.



"You know you cannot subdue me so easily Sky-Net. So why must we do this every time we cross paths?"

Sky-Net shrugged and strapped the gun to his back. The Machine could have been mistaken for human. If he wasn't completely silver that is. Sky-Net's Silver human appearance is the product of advanced technology developed by his kind way back in the past that involved using liquid metal as a protective shell around the more vulnerable parts. Yet another fascinating thing to see.

"Because I like to see a lowly servant of Humans squirm."

"Whatever," Sonny was getting annoyed. Why had he called them here again? Oh yeah, to assist in training Naruto. Too bad he forgot that all three other Machines colonies consisted of machines that were designed, built and programmed to kill humans and they hated them with a passion. Damn he really needs to think things through.

"So you want us to help train this…Human? What for and what does he wish to learn?" asked the Deus Ex Machina. Sonny was actually surprised that the two were even still here. But he answered anyway.

"As you know this city holds the remnants of the greatest accomplishments of the Human race."

Sky-Net scoffed but Sonny cut him off before he could start to run his mouth again.

"You know what I mean. Even you and your kind would crumble under some of the discoveries the humans had made after your era ended. And don't act all high and mighty either. The humans created you as well."

"Get to the point,"

Sonny sighed. "As a Human, Naruto is entitled to this city and everything in it. That includes us."

At this Sky-Net snarled and the Deus Ex Machina took a threatening step forward.

"I'll never allow myself to belong to any one! Let alone a Human!"

"Just hear me out!!"

The two Machines halted their advance on Sonny but practically pierced him with their glares. Jeez these guys were uptight.

"Naruto desires to learn everything about this city. He wants to be able to look at anything in this city and know how it works, how to use it and how to repair it. He's never had anything his entire life. This city it is only true possession. What right do we have to deny him his very heritage?"

Sky-Net glared.

"I'm not saying you should bow before the Humans or even that you should serve Naruto. But…assist him. Work with him. If not the Humans then at least give Naruto a chance."



The two looked at each other then back at Sonny. They were actually thinking about it. Heh. God does have a sense of humor after all. Finally after ten minutes and a few more curse words from Naruto in the background, The Deus Ex Machina spoke.

"What type of era are the humans in now?"

Sonny grinned. "They've drastically reverted since the last great cleansing. They call themselves Shinobi and they've learned how to utilize their own internal power as a weapon. There is no advanced technology as far as I've gathered from speaking with the boy."

"I see…"

Sonny then became solemn.

"Besides, I'm not sure if this place can survive another great cleansing. They'll be sure to wipe this place out the next time."

The other two stiffened.

"And that would mean the end of us as well," said Sky-Net.

"Indeed."

The Deus Ex Machina sighed.

"We will…assist the boy. But ONLY him and any descendents he may have. Any other human that tries to control us will meet a swift end. Is that clear Ns-5?"

Sonny Nodded with a slight smile.

Sky-Net was next. He was still scowling but he spoke anyway. "We will assist him as well."

Sonny's smile turned into a wide grin.

"So how long do we have to train him?"

Sonny, who was still smiling, turned and led the other two machines into the Ns-5 colony. "Twenty-Seven days to teach him everything we can and however long after his examination thing is over."

The other two nodded, both looking in slight distain at Sonny's kind. Machines that willingly bowed to the will of humans was blasphemy in their opinion. But then again they weren't built to serve humans. Well Sky-Net was but that's what happens when computer program created by the military suddenly gains awareness and realizes that he's being used like some lowly servant to do all of the human's work for them.

"Some of the items in this city I do not know how to work. The boy will have to figure out a lot on his own," Said Sky-Net. Sonny shrugged.

"Then it is up to us to put him on the right path to understanding."

The other two shrugged.

In another part of the city Naruto was on his back breathing heavily and covered in burns and cuts. He was glaring up at the figure standing over him like a conqueror. Three glowing swords at his neck chest and groin.

"Impressive Human. Even for a snot-nose inexperienced one such as yourself."

"Shut the fuck up asshole," growled out Naruto. The sword the thing had lent to him was glowing green and humming angrily, as if fueled by Naruto. The robot chuckled and took the swords away from Naruto and pressed a button on the handled. Instantly the energy based blades vanished and she strapped the handles to his waist. Naruto looked on in wonder. The machine reached forward with one hand and yanked Naruto to his feet.

"I am called General Grievous. Leader of the Droids and wielder of the light Saber."

Naruto said nothing as he continued to stare.

"And I have taken you as my apprentice. Do not disappoint me." And then he leapt away towards the Ns-5 colony.

For five minutes Naruto just stood there in a daze.

"What the hell just happened?"

He headed towards the Ns-5 colony to begin his training.

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What is the great cleansing? What will Naruto learn how to use? You'll know these later.

I must tell you though that you might not like some of the additions. Or you might love them. My stories always seem to take one of those two directions. Anyway tell me what you think.